Week  35

Hearmana Johnson visiting the Branch.

(I served by her in Little Rock)

  This week here in Memphis was a pretty solid week!  We did a lot of finding again and as well were able to teach some really good lessons with the people that we had found the previous week.  We have some investigators La Familia Hernandez.  They are both in their 20's and they have two younger kids.  Elder Fortie was teaching them pretty consistently before I came, but then they moved house so they have been in the moving process for a while. Now they are all settled in and we were able to see them earlier  in the week.  We were able to review the first three lessons with them and get them back up to speed.  The big thing for them is just getting them married first.  They are super cool and have desires to get baptized.  Then on Saturday we were able to see them again, She just had gotten surgery and they had visitors. but they still had us come in.  We were able to teach them a really good lesson, and they committed to the commitments that we left them.  Then their baby was sick so they asked if we could give her a blessing.  We gave her a blessing and the spirit was really strong in the room.  They could really feel it, and were grateful that we were able to do that.  Then we related it to him how he would be able bless his own kids after he gets baptized and later gets the Priesthood.  That got them really excited, so we are hoping that will give them a push to get married and baptized pronto in order to receive the wonderful blessing that there are in the gospel.  They are super good friends with a family in the branch as well, which always makes the mission work way easier.  We are really excited to be able to continue teaching them, and preparing them for the next big step in their lives! 

  Also this week I was able to teach for the first time some people from the "La Luz del Mundo" church.  Elder Meyers had told me all about them.  We were actually going to see an investigator that we had, and this guy let us in.  He was super nice, but we started into the Restauracion and you could feel that it was going to be a struggle.  Their big thing is that the Church that Christ set up was with Apostles first, and so they have only 1 apostle leading their church.  After plenty of different opinions on every subject we made it through La Restauracion and they wanted us to come back.  So our goal is to get them to feel the spirit as much as possible, and hopefully they will be able to feel the truthfulness of our message.  It was kind of a fun experience just because I had never taught anyone from that Religion beforre.

  Then we had Branch Conference on Sunday and that went really well.  Later on in the day we went to see Rosie who me and Elder Doty had met on exchanges.  We had a really good exchange and met a lot of cool people.  So we knock on the door of Rosie and one was there but we hear noise in the backyard and so we walk back there.  Rosie was there and as well there were three other guys.  2 of the guys had beers in their hand and were definitely pretty tipsy.  Then one of the guys (who ended up being Rosie's husband) starting yelling ridiculous stuff like "God doesn't exist" and "I'm the devil".  He was by far the most drunk guy I had ever seen in my life.  He was so drunk that he was drinking his beer, and spilling most of it all over his hoodie.  We felt kind of bad for Rosie because she is super nice and way cool, but her husband just drinks a ton.  So the drunk guy just keeps yelling at us, and delighting us with is wonderful vocabulary in Spanish and almost impossible to understand English. ha ha!  But what we ended up doing is one of us would talk to the drunk guy, and the other would talk to Rosie or the other super cool guy who wasn't drunk.  He kept asking us if he could have my bible, and I told him I would give him it if he gave me his shoes.  Well he was so drunk he took of his shoes and wanted to trade.  But we didn't want him to destroy the bible.  It was pretty hilarious to watch, and definitely made for a good story.  Nevertheless we made it out of their with a super cool investigator the brother in law de Rosi,e and a return appointment with Rosie.  We'll see how that goes!  Other than that it was a pretty good week, and we should have another good week this week as well!  We are looking forward to conference this week,  it is always amazing to hear the wonderful words of the Prophets and Apostles.  We are so blessed to be able to have that guidance in our life. No better time to listen to the words of our leaders on Easter Sunday. 

  I hope that you have an awesome week up in Portland and an amazing Easter.  Thank you so much for everything and all the support.  I love you so much! 

Me and Heaton keeping the Arizona tradition going!